How to Email Authors When Their Articles are Published in WordPress

If you run a multi-author blog, then notifying the authors when their blog post is published can help them promote the post and participate in the discussion. Recently, one of our readers asked if it was possible to email authors when their articles are published. In this article, we will show you how to email authors when their posts are published in WordPress.

This code runs when a new post is published in WordPress. It sends an email notification to the author using the subject and message defined in the code. Feel free to change the subject and message fields to meet your needs.

Hi, first of all thank you for your great article and sorry for my bad english… I am italian.

Well, I need a suggest…. but my scenario is different, anyway this is the situation:

1) I manage a multi authors site.
2) They can publish without any control (they are all journalists, so the authors can publish in “real time”)
3) My authors ask me to add a little form under their post (like the classic mailing list form)
4) The purpose of this form is to send and email to the subscribers only when the author of the post publish a new post.

In a few words. The author John write a post. The visitor Adam fill in the form (under the post) with his name and email, and from this moment, every time John will write a new post wp will notify the event to Adam and to all the others John’s subscribers.

The question: there is on the market a plugin like this?
A big thanks!!

You can use this RSS feed to create a mailing list for each author on your website using a service like MailChimp. See our guide on how to add email subscriptions to your WordPress blog, it shows creating email lists for your main RSS feed, simply replace the main RSS feed for author RSS feed.

You can then use a lead generation solution like OptinMonster to add after post signup forms for each author.

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